What is the Role of Schools of Public Health in the 21 st Century? A Panel of Deans

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1 Thursday, 30 April h45-8h15 8h15-8h30 Breakfast Welcome remarks Dr. David Eidelman, Vice-Principal (Health Affairs) and Dean, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University Dr. Gilles Paradis, Strathcona Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University 8h30-10h30 What is the Role of Schools of Public Health in the 21 st Century? A Panel of Deans Session moderator: Dr. Jean Rochon, Consultant, Public Health Institute of Quebec, Former Quebec Minister of Health and Former Dean of Medicine, Laval University Dr. James W. Curran, Dean, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University Dr. Pierre Fournier, Dean, School of Public Health, University of Montreal Dr. Howard Hu, Dean, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto Dr. Terry Nolan, Head, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Australia Dr. Fred Paccaud, First Director, Swiss School of Public Health and Director, Institute for Social and Preventative Medicine, Lausanne Dr. Harrison Spencer, President and CEO, Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health USA and former Dean, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Tulane School of Public Health 10h30-10h45 Break and poster session 10h45-11h45 Health Services and Policy Session moderator: Dr. Robyn Tamblyn

2 Current challenges and future prospects of health services and policy research Dr. Robyn Tamblyn, James McGill Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University and Scientific Director, CIHR Institute of Health Services and Policy Research The Québec context Dr. Jean-Louis Denis, Professor, École nationale d administration publique (ENAP), Montreal and Canada Research Chair in Governance and Transformation of Health Organizations and Systems (GETOSS) The value of big data Dr. Michael Schull, President and CEO, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), and Professor, Departments of Medicine and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME), University of Toronto 11h45-12h15 Occupational and Environmental Health Moderator: Dr. Paul Héroux, Occupational Health Program Director, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University Recent advances in occupational and environmental health research Dr. Howard Hu, Dean and Professor of Environmental Health, Epidemiology, and Global Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto 12h15-13h30 Lunch and poster session 13h30-15h00 Epidemiology Across the Lifespan Moderator: Dr. Caroline Quach-Thanh, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Associate Member, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University McGill s contributions to perinatal and pediatric epidemiology

3 Dr. Michael Kramer, James McGill Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University and Director, Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre Studies of social policy at McGill in the 21 st century: in the service of a worthy cause Dr. Jay Kaufman, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Health Disparities, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University Epidemiologic research of mental disorders at McGill: Reflections on our 50-year lifespan trajectory Dr. Rebecca Fuhrer, Professor and Immediate Past Chair of the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and Director of the MScPH Program, McGill University The past shapes the future: research in aging in a middle-aged department Dr. Christina Wolfson, Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health; and Medicine, McGill University and Medical Scientist, Research Institute, McGill University Health Centre 15h00-15h30 Break and poster session 15h30-16h30 Moderator: Dr. James Hanley, Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health. McGill University The problem of attrition in longitudinal studies of the elderly Dr. David Clayton, Emeritus Honorary Professor of Biostatistics, University of Cambridge 17h00-18h30 18h30-21h00 20h00 Cocktail Hour Alumni dinner Business attire Dinner conversation: Reflection of a McGill graduate from down under Dr. Terry Nolan, Head, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Australia

4 Friday, 1 May h45-8h15 8h15-8h30 Breakfast Welcome remarks Dr. Jean-François Boivin, Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University 8h30-9h EBOH Student Research Day Best Presentations MSc Winner Rhiannon Kamstra PhD Winner Brooke Levis 9h00-10h00 Biostatistics for the 21 st Century Moderator: Dr. Erica Moodie, Associate Professor, Biostatistics and Biostatistics Program Director, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Occupational Health, McGill University Convergence of the biostatistical and survey worlds Dr. Tom Louis, Professor of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Associate Director for Research & Methodology, and Chief Scientist of the US Census Bureau 10h00-10h30 Getting here from there: 50+ years of the randomized controlled trial Dr. Stan Shapiro, Professor Emeritus, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University 10h30-11h00 Break 11h00-11h30 Clinical Epidemiology in the Era of Big Data Moderator: Dr. Madhukar Pai, Professor of Epidemiology & Director, McGill Global Health Programs

5 Trials and tribulations in 25 years of pharmacoepidemiology Dr. Samy Suissa, Director, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Lady Davis Institute and Professor, Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and of Medicine, McGill University 11h30-12h30 Global Health Moderator: Dr. Madhukar Pai, Professor of Epidemiology & Director, McGill Global Health Programs Can implementation research save global health? Dr. David Peters, Professor and Chair of the Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 12h30 Concluding remarks Dr. Gilles Paradis 12h30 Lunch